This title continues to please, balancing the different characters and storylines in such a way that you never lose interest in any of them. It's good stuff, all of it.
Tony Stark's reaction to Sin's raid and rescue mission was low-key and nicely done, giving an excellent sense of just how weary Tony is these days. You get the sense that while he has never led a stress-free life, heading SHIELD is something entirely new.
I'm glad that, at least, Sin was not excised from Crossbones' memory. Although I suppose Faustus could have done something similar to what he did with Sharon, and given Sin a code to return Brock's memories as well, now that they don't need to be hidden.
The Black Widow section was one of my favorite parts of the book, from her effortless beat-down on an entire bar to her easy movement along the rooftops, to that "aha!" moment we see at the end of it. Although I'm wondering whether I'm missing something about her current background--that bit where she stares down the fellow with the pool cue. When he backs down, she curls her lip and says "Men...Pfffft..." As far as I know Natasha has no problem with or specific scorn for the male sex itself, so it seemed like an odd phrasing.
The Winter Soldier, again as always, was highly entertaining. (By the way, he spends an awful lot of time hanging out in bars, doesn't he?). There are just some wonderful moments in his segments--crashing into Kronas, realizing that something's up with Lukin but attacking immediately anyway, the expression on Lukin's face as WS accuses him of working with the Red Skull, and his own realization of what's really going on there. He's got to be thinking that if he'd just waited a moment when he noticed that Lukin was a bit "off" he might have been in a better situation there.
And speaking of Lukin and Skull, their interaction was one of the highlights of the issue. If we didn't know which was on top before, we do now--you'll notice that when WS hears part of their conversation through Lukin, it's the Skull's words that he hears, not Lukin's.
I'm definitely enjoying the Sharon Carter action hero sequences here. She can hold her own--well, she could apart from the Faust-induced flashbacks. And Black Widow is going to tell Tony that they're after the WS as well? That's potentially not good.
You know, I'm sure that eventually I'll have something negative to say about this title, but not this month.
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